Ceri Francis

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Ceri Francis: Data Analyst

An analytics professional with a breadth of experience across enterprise clients with a leading global digital agency, as well as depth from being embedded in two fast-growing international scale startups where data is indispensable to growth and success.

Skills

Languages

Python, R, SQL, JavaScript

Tools

Google BigQuery, Google DataStudio, Google Analytics, Power BI, Airflow, Databricks, RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks

Domain Expertise

Marketing, Product, Statistical Analysis/Experimentation, Tracking Infrastructures, Databases, Process Automation, Data Visualisation

Experience

Zalando SE | Berlin, DE Senior Product Analyst | Jan 2020 - Present

Zalando is Europe's largest fashion platform, operating in 17 markets with annual GMV of over 10bn Euros from their 31m customers

Supporting 10+ product managers I am responsible for the analytics and experimentation needs of two teams, who own our product pages, and our product availability evaluation software and merchant competition algorithm.


Entertainment Magpie Ltd | Stockport, UKLead Web Analyst | Aug 2017-Dec 2019

Entertainment Magpie are a leading "re-commerce" group operating with their brands musicMagpie(UK) and Decluttr(US), with annual revenues of £130m and selling worldwide to 5m customers in 100+ countries.

In my role as the company's lead and first Web Analyst within the marketing team, I was responsible for all measurement infrastructure across our sites and apps, via Google Tag Manager or direct implementation. In addition I was responsible for marketing performance insights and ownership of Google Analytics.


iProspect/Dentsu | Manchester, UKAnalytics Executive | Jan 2016 - Jul 2017

iProspect are a digital performance marketing services provider held by the Dentsu, the world's fifth biggest global network advertising agency. In the UK alone they operated out of 6 offices with over 500+ employees, Dentsu serviced some of the UK's largest multi-national businesses; typically spending multi-million marketing budgets monthly.

I worked within the CRO&Analytics department - at the time the largest in the North - of over 20+ employees. I planned, executed, and consulted on full analytics and tag management implementations primarily within the Google enterprise stack. The role was highly client facing and I was trusted from an early stage to represent the analytics stream with high profile clients.

I was promoted in January 2017 after one year in my entry level role to Analytics Executive, due to performance. I also retained 100% of my clients.


Part Time Jobs & Volunteering 2013 - 2015

I took a variety of part time and volunteering roles after I left university. Around those I founded, recruited and led a 5 person international gaming team competing at semi-professional level in Europe, and ran a small digital item trading operation. In addition I taught myself basic Russian and visited there for a month, I also visited 10 European countries.

Education

University of Leeds 2010 - 2013

BA Mathematics & Philosophy

Grade: Upper Second (2.1)